Our Secret Potential: A new approach to purpose, performance and well-being in the 21st century

By Tessa I Richter

Understand the principles of how our minds works, how the heart is a source of boundless energy, how by trusting our gut feelings and cooperating with life we can go to places we never dreamed were possible for us.

Learn what we are capable of as human beings, and how a purposeful life using our full potenti

• Language: English
• Publisher: innerpulse
• Release date: Sep 5, 2020
• ISBN: 9783952529812

Tessa I Richter

Tessa is a career and executive coach, specialised in aiding professionals who have lost their jobs or face health issues. Her INNERPULSE coaching programs help them to find purpose and regain well-being, as well as to perform at the highest level. Before starting to work in the business arena, Tessa was a professional classical musician, performing at a high international level, composing and teaching for more than 30 years. During this time, she travelled the outer and inner worlds, exploring and developing practices that help to perform at the top level while simultaneously safeguarding one's inner balance and well-being. These include forms of meditation, autogenic training, shamanism and mindset techniques used by top athletes. In her second career as a professional artist, during which time her work was exhibited and sold internationally, she learned how images convey information and energy, how they have a profound impact on us, and how we can use them to our advantage in times of crisis and when facing challenges. Having successfully changed careers and built several of her own businesses, she has now become a sought-after coach for outplacement or business people of all levels, from C-level to highly trained specialists. Her experience working with professionals in crises, as well as her own healing from major and minor illnesses, using the tools and processes developed over the course of her life have led her to see the strong correlation between living one's purpose, health and top performance. Tessa is a tree hugger and enjoys swimming in lakes as soon as the sun comes out.

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About the Author

Tessa is a career and executive coach, specialised in aiding professionals who have lost their jobs or face health issues. Her INNERPULSE coaching programs help them to find purpose and regain well-being, as well as to perform at the highest level.

Before starting to work in the business arena, Tessa was a professional classical musician, performing at a high international level, composing and teaching for more than 30 years. During this time, she travelled the outer and inner worlds, exploring and developing practices that help to perform at the top level while simultaneously safeguarding one’s inner balance and well-being. These include forms of meditation, autogenic training, shamanism and mindset techniques used by top athletes. In her second career as a professional artist, during which time her work was exhibited and sold internationally, she learned how images convey information and energy, how they have a profound impact on us, and how we can use them to our advantage in times of crisis and when facing challenges.

Having successfully changed careers and built several of her own businesses, she has now become a sought-after coach for outplacement or business people of all levels, from C-level to highly trained specialists. Her experience working with professionals in crises, as well as her own healing from major and minor illnesses, using the tools and processes developed over the course of her life have led her to see the strong correlation between living one’s purpose, health and top performance.

Tessa is a tree hugger and enjoys swimming in lakes as soon as the sun comes out.

INNERPULSE by Tessa Richter

40 years exploring and teaching the benefits of music, meditative states of flow, artistic creation, mindfulness, meditation, and mindset techniques. Coaching professionals to find their voice, meaning and purpose, and to perform at top level. Coaching individuals and groups on how to deal with stressful situations and change, and reframe crises in a positive manner to create health, happiness and purpose, leading to more success in all areas of life.

Our

Secret

Potential

A new approach to purpose, performance and well-being in the 21st century

Tessa I. Richter

First published by INNERPULSE

© 2020 Tessa I. Richter

The right of Tessa I. Richter to be identified as author of this Work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

ISBN: 978-3-9525298-1-2

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, copied in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise transmitted without written permission from the author

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Cover design by Mark Jackson

Typesetting: Fuzzy Flamingo

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I dedicate this book to love and cooperation and the new world they will help to create. One that we will like to be a part of and proud to have contributed to.

Contents

About the Author

INNERPULSE by Tessa Richter

Want to Create a Whole New Life?

Our life calling

THE STUFF MIRACLES ARE MADE OF

Modern physics meets ancient mystics

Mysterious inner pulse

Loopholes of creativity

OUR SECRET POTENTIAL

Accessing our secret garden

Know yourself

Love who you are

Create what matters

CO-CREATING WITH THE WORLD WE LIVE IN

Life helps us mobilise hidden talents

Weaknesses: our guides to creating what matters

Cooperating with life as it is

Timing, rhythms and cycles

USING ALL OUR BRAINS

Different parts of the brain

Our 3 brains: head, heart and gut

Head intelligence: insight

Heart intelligence: intuition

Gut intelligence: impulse

Head, heart and gut intelligence: inspiration

Coherence: our brains co-operating

Clearing, charging and rewiring our brains

CONNECTING WITH THE INNER PULSE OF LIFE

Meditation

Mindset

Images and imagery

Signs

Flow

Creating art

Music

Nature

Purpose

Forms of love

Gratitude

Forgiveness

Acceptance

Compassion

Feeling connected

CREATE WHAT MATTERS

Entering the creative zone: our sacred space

Vision and focus

The power of thoughts, words and sound to create

Stories – rewriting our lives

True magic: the pulse of things and we are one

TO THE MOON AND BEYOND

Miracles

Want to Create a

Whole New Life?

In my life, in spite of – or perhaps because of – great challenges, I have performed what I can only call miracles. Things I never ever in my wildest dreams would have deemed possible. I have also healed myself from major and minor illnesses, finding my own approach along the way.

As a teacher and coach, I have witnessed countless miracles. I’m not talking about the kind of miracle where you feed thousands with one piece of bread. But personal miracles we don’t believe to be possible, such as healing from an incurable illness or finding a satisfying and well-paying job at the age of 60.

We consider them to be miracles, because they don’t occur in a linear fashion as cause and effect. There are other principles and forces involved, such as quantum leaps, faith, listening to our inner wisdom and cooperating with life, based on trust.

It is this new approach to life, to the world we live in that I’m introducing here. May it serve as the basis for many to heal and create miracles, to perform at a whole new level. Moving into these possibilities is like moving into a whole new world, so very different from the world we live in. It is a world of cooperation, connection, and undreamt of possibilities. Once you’ve experienced it, you will never want to go back. You will be changed forever, and you will help change our world.

Our life calling

It is often our own life that reaches out to us, calling us and asking us to step into something completely new and unknown. Many times through an illness, losing work or a person, sometimes through an inner nagging, a feeling of: I just cannot go on like this. Something needs to change.Collectively, we have begun to feel a deep unease. Mental illnesses, stress and burnout are causing our health insurances, companies and the state, enormous amounts of money.

Perhaps because of this, people all over the world have begun to look at our world in a different way. Looking for alternatives. We are beginning to realise that we have unused potential waiting to be unlocked. One that will bring an entirely new level of health, well-being and perhaps our own form of paradise.

30 years ago, I was ridiculed in my community for going round hugging trees. It kept me sane, when nothing else did. Things have changed. Today, scientists the world over are beginning to share their findings that forest bathing in Japan or prescribing nature in Scotland are beneficial, and perhaps even vital, for our health. There are films showing evidence of the intelligence of trees. And much more. We are not only moving into an era of unimaginable technological feats, but also into a new age of humanity. This movement is taking us both forward into the unknown, as well as backward, in that we are reconnecting to our deepest roots.

It is perhaps no coincidence that Japan, one of the countries known for its technologically driven culture, is at the forefront of this new movement. Technology and AI have become driving forces, better at many things than us humans. At the same time, doctors of the NHS in Great Britain are prescribing art, music, meditation, dancing and nature against depression and stress-related illnesses. Arts teaching could become more important than math in the tech-based future, says a leading education expert at OECD. Perceiving humans as the most perfect and highly advanced machine the way we have done, no longer works.

In the age of AI and all it entails, it is time to radically rethink who we are and what we are capable of, so we can access hitherto unused potential. Intuition, inspiration, empathy and creativity are some of our core competencies which we have not learned to trust and utilise fully. Few of us have learned to listen to our own heartbeats or that of our lives.

Growing up, most of us learn to use the talents and develop the skills that are in keeping with what our social environment thinks is best. At school, we fit in with the generally accepted values of our society and the times we live in. We develop an image of who we are, based on our background, skills and what we perceive to be good, right, acceptable or valuable. Rarely do we question the validity of collective beliefs. Usually we do so only if we have tried hard, given it our best and haven’t been able to fulfil the demands put on us by others. Or, sometimes, when we get ill, either physically or mentally.

When we are sick, we usually treat the illness on a physical level with medication, therapy or surgery. We rarely think of our work, our attitude towards life or towards others and ourselves, as being a possible cause for illness.

Over the course of many years, I have come to realise that our well-being and ability to achieve our highest potential has another, hidden aspect: it is connected to us living our true nature as human beings, based on who we are. This potential is rather like a muscle: if we don’t use it, it shrivels and its energy goes stale. This affects our mental and physical well-being, leading to anxiety, lack of energy and motivation, but also to more serious